Word: naval
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...male. Yet they belong to a certain 74-year-old whose Oval Office job is mostly sedentary. Ronald Reagan's "overall physical and mental condition is excellent," says Navy Captain Walter Karney, the internist who headed up the team of doctors that administered the examination at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Reagan's blood pressure this year is even lower than it was last year...
...McFarlane was still a relatively junior player. Though he quickly persuaded Clark that the new policy should be considered, he needed another ally of standing, one who shared Reagan's moral distaste for those cocked nuclear pistols. That ally turned out to be Admiral James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations. Late in 1982 McFarlane and Watkins consulted informally. The product of those talks was a document, known to insiders as the "freedom from fear" briefing paper, conveying McFarlane's views over Watkins' name...
...Philippines for fiscal 1986 from $225 million to $275 million. Much of the funding will come out of a five-year, $900 million package agreed to by Washington in 1983 in exchange for the maintenance of two vital U.S. installations in the Philippines, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. That commitment complicates Washington's difficulties in weighing its reservations about the Marcos regime against its worries about the insurgency. "I think the Americans have made up their minds that the incumbent government may have spent its moral force," says Marcos' Labor Minister Blas Ople, "but at the same...
...such as Combat Fleets of the World and Norman Polmar's Guide to the Soviet Navy. Another important resource was the $9.95 war game Harpoon, devised as an instruction manual for Navy ROTC cadets, which comes with a 40-page rule book of strategy and tactics for Soviet-American naval engagements. The author also interviewed former submariners who are now operating the Baltimore Gas & Electric nuclear power plant near his home in Huntingtown, Md. "I didn't get kissed by the muse," he says. "It was hard work...
...blurb on the novel's jacket, the former CIA chief, Admiral Stansfield Turner, is quoted as saying, "(Clancy) makes you appreciate that decisions naval commanders on both sides may have to make in peacetime could lead the United States and the Soviet Union into war." Readers might well hope that the highly placed fans of The Hunt will keep the admiral's thought in mind...